Portal:Horror
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The PORTAL of HORRORWikipedia portals: Culture · Geography · Health · History · Mathematics · Natural sciences · Philosophy · Religion · Society · Technology Welcome to the PORTAL of HORRORWelcome to Wikipedia's portal of horror fiction and horror film. Horror fiction is, broadly, fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of an evil or occasionally misunderstood supernatural element into everyday human experience. Since the 1960s, any work of fiction with a morbid, gruesome, surreal, exceptionally suspenseful or frightening theme has come to be called "horror." Horror fiction often overlaps with science fiction and/or fantasy, all of which have sometimes been placed under the umbrella category speculative fiction. In film, the horror genre is characterized by the attempt to make the viewer experience dread, fear, terror, disgust, or horror. Its plots often involve the intrusion of an evil force, event, or personage, sometimes of supernatural origin, into the mundane world. Selected Article Halloween was produced on a budget of $325,000 and grossed $47 million at the box office in the United States, equivalent to over $150 million as of 2008, becoming one of the most profitable independent films ever made. Many critics credit the film as the first in a long line of slasher films inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960). The movie originated many clichés found in low-budget horror films of the 1980s and 1990s. The film contains little graphic violence and gore. Critics have suggested that Halloween and its slasher film successors may encourage sadism and misogyny. Others have suggested the film is a social critique of the immorality of young people in 1970s America, pointing out that many of Myers' victims are sexually promiscuous substance abusers, while the lone heroine is depicted as chaste and innocent (although she is seen using marijuana). While Carpenter dismisses such analyses, the perceived parallel between the characters' moral strengths and their likelihood of surviving to the film's conclusion has nevertheless become a standard slasher movie trope. Selected Picture
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Featured horror content Featured articles: Films: Alien vs. Predator • Cannibal Holocaust • The Cat and the Canary (1927) • Gremlins • Gremlins 2: The New Batch • Halloween (1978) • Halloween II • Halloween III: Season of the Witch • Jaws • Manos: The Hands of Fate • The Mummy (1999) • Night of the Living Dead • The Pit and the Pendulum (1961 film) • System Shock • Tenebrae • Witchfinder General • Zodiac Games: Silent Hill 4: The Room Writers: Edgar Allan Poe • H.P. Lovecraft • Mary Shelley Characters: Jason Voorhees Creatures: Vampire Good Articles: Films: Alien (film) • Alien Resurrection • Aliens • Beetlejuice • Bride of Frankenstein • Dracula's Daughter • Eyes Without a Face • Friday the 13th (franchise) • Ginger Snaps (film) • Grindhouse (film) • Grizzly Rage • Halloween (2007 film) • Hannibal • I Am Legend • Jaws 2 • Jaws 3-D • Jaws: The Revenge • King Kong (2005) • Maneater (film) • The Orphanage (2007 film) • Psycho (1960) • Resident Evil • Resident Evil: Apocalypse • Resident Evil: Extinction • Silent Hill • Sleepy Hollow • Snakes on a Plane • The Rocky Horror Picture Show • The Stone Tape • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre • Ultime grida dalla savana Games: Doom 3 • F.E.A.R. • Silent Hill 2 • Silent Hill 3 • Silent Hill Homecoming • System Shock 2 • Novels: "Botan Dōrō" • "Frankenstein" • "Yotsuya Kaidan" Franchises: Friday the 13th (franchise) • Halloween (franchise) • Subspecies • Characters: Michael Myers • Randall Flagg Related portalsAssociated Wikimedia |
